History of Sex in Cinema:The Greatest and Most Influential
Sexual Films and Scenes(Illustrated)

2012

The History of Sex in Cinema

Movie Title/Year and Film/Scene Description

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A number of cable-TV
dramatic series have continued to spark debate about nudity
and sex on cable TV, and especially what some critics have termed "sexposition"
- or unnecessary gratuitous nudity of its female performers.
This sampling below is only a continuation of what came in the
year before.

The R-rated showbiz drama film marking the directorial
debut of Stephen Elliott (a former sex worker) was subtitled with
the tagline: "There's no such thing as going too far." The poster
advertising the film was of the nude shirtless backside of a pig-tailed
schoolgirl with a plaid skirt sitting on a desk, in front of a
group of film cameras (one of the film's major sequences). For
authenticity regarding the world of pornographic film-making,
the script was co-written by Lorelei Lee, a veteran of almost
100 porn films. The film was first made available as video on
demand and then opened for limited release in theatres.

The slow-moving, coming-of-age film told
of the evolution of a young, blonde 18 year-old teen Angelina
(Ashley Hinshaw in her debut starring role) living in a broken
family in Long Beach, CA who became an adult film starlet. Her
depraved boyfriend Bobby (Jonny Weston), who sought a referral
fee and hinted: "Do you want to wash other people's laundry
forever?", convinced
her to pose for some topless pictures for Vaughn (Ernest Waddell),
to be posted on a website. She enjoyed posing topless while reclined
on a fur-lined sofa.

Afterwards, with the $500 - she journeyed
north to San Francisco with her resentfully-platonic best friend
and confidante Andrew (Dev Patel). She started out as a cocktail
waitress in a strip club, where she was soon introduced to wealthy,
drug-addicted, art-appreciating lawyer Francis (James Franco),
and Margaret (Heather Graham), an ex-porn star (and lesbian) who
was directing adult fetish films for the website Bod. [Note: Much
of the film was actually shot inside the San Francisco Armory, which
housed the porn website Kink.com.]

During a photoshoot directed by svengali director
Margaret, Angelina - now screen-named Cherry - posed for the
cameras as an innocent schoolgirl, first touching herself, then
stripping to black underwear, and then going topless. Margaret
talked her through the sequence as she also gave directions behind
the camera:

"You're a naughty
girl. You can try and get us turned on. Give me a close-up. Why
don't you touch yourself? You know you want to. Go wide. You
can't help yourself, huh? You're so f--kin' hot! You know that
feels good, doesn't it? I'm not gonna let you come yet, though,
not yet. There's still plenty of time if you have to go do your
homework. We want to see you strip. Just do it really slow,
entertain us. And then maybe, I'll let you come. You're so hot.
Wow! You're a sexy broad. Naughty little schoolgirl. Oh, my
God. You're so beautiful. Your ass is so hot. Oh, my God. You're a work of art."

The nurturing mentor Margaret developed a crush
on Cherry (and kissed her), causing a rift in her 8-year relationship
with her own girlfriend Jillian (Diane Farr). Their breakup scene
was slightly voyeuristic and involved angry sex.

'Cherry"
progressed from solo masturbation (for online patrons, while awkwarding
touching a giant dildo), to girl-on-girl, online bondage porn
and S&M,
and finally to full-on boy-girl scenes. When she graduated to
more lucrative hard-core sex on camera, the scenes were timid
- limited basically to waist-up views.

In the film's conclusion,
Francis became upset at his girlfriend, asking: "Why do you
do whatcha do?" She responded blankly, "This is my job." He
then went further:
"How am I supposed to, uhm, f--k you tonight after you just
got done f--king, I dunno, five guys?" She added: "Everybody's
tested. Are all of your girlfriends tested?" He claimed she
was his only girlfriend. Angelina eventually decided to move in
with Margaret and decided to take a turn at directing porn herself.

Many of the stars from the first two or three films
reprised their roles in this sweetly-raunchy, tedious comedy,
to continue the tale of the teens 13 years later - now struggling
with sex at middle-age. Its tagline was: "SAVE THE BEST PIECE
FOR LAST."

The setting for the sappy ensemble film was the
10th year reunion (actually 13th) of classmates at East Great
Falls (Michigan) during a momentous weekend. Some of the singles
from the earlier film were now married, such as Jim Levenstein
(Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), with a two year-old
son Evan. The couple had a sex-less love life which was stuck
in a rut (he watched porn on his laptop and pleasured himself
into a lubricated sock, while she masturbated alone in a sudsy
bathtub with a hand-held shower head).

The profanity-laced, sex-drenched tale revolved
around three weekend events: an 18 year old's birthday party,
Stifler's house party, and the reunion itself. It included both
male (including an extended shot of Jim's genitals covered up
by a see-through glass pan lid) and female nudity (from minor
supporting characters rather than from the main stars), some very
suggestive sex scenes, and lots of sex talk. The shenanigans,
break-ups and pair-ups included:

Stifler retaliating against locals by defecating
in their beer cooler

hung-over Kevin waking up
in bed naked with Vicky (although he fantasized that she was
performing oral sex on him)

Mia's breaking-up with Oz, after which Oz was
reunited with Heather

Jim finally having sex with his wife Michelle, during the HS
reunion

Stifler doing it with Finch's mother Rachel
(Rebecca De Mornay) on the lacrosse field during the reunion
(she enticed him: "I like to handle a stick and cradle those
balls")

The most nudity was seen in the sequence involving
Jim's meeting up with his seductively tempting next-door high-school-aged
neighbor Kara (Ali Cobrin), someone he used to baby-sit but who
was now all "grown up." She invited him to her 18th
birthday party ("I want you to come so bad"), after
which Jim drove the inebriated, virginal Kara home. Next to him
in the car, she propositioned him: "I want you to be my first...I
can't think of a better birthday gift" and stripped off her
dress. He had great difficulty sneaking her back into her house
- carrying her half-naked outside and then into her house and up
her stairs to her bedroom.

Famed independent film producer Roger Corman, the
master of schlocky B-movies ("The King of the B's"),
Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, and various creature features, brought
this 3-D film (his first ever) to the screen (TV) for the EPIX
cable network. The movie was another example of his branding style
- an entertaining, fun-filled, profitable venture, and a throwback
to the T&A films
of the 70s and 80s. The film was actually a remake or "re-conception" of
Corman's own Attack
of the 50-Foot Woman (1958), and similar to Jerry Lewis' The
Nutty Professor (1963) and parts of Gulliver's Travels.
It was advertised with the obvious tagline: LOOK AT THE SIZE OF
THOSE POM POMS!

It told of a scientific experiment that went awry.
An aspiring college cheerleader Cassie
Stratford (Jena Sims, Miss Georgia Teen USA in 2007) felt that she
was nerdy, mousy, and ugly (with facial acne) ("Being me sucks").
Urged by her vain and pushy mother Brenda (Sean Young), Cassie hoped
to become a member of the school's most popular sorority led by the
film's antagonist - the evil and bitchy Brittany Andrews (Olivia Alexander).

The freshman scientist
took a performance-enhancing, anti-ugly serum, and grew
to gigantic proportions (in stages). At first, she was pleased
with her transformation - she stood in front of a mirror and admired
her new figure, but then problems arose. Brittany emulated her,
and self-administered a double dosage of serum shot into both
of her breasts. Soon after while having sex, her bra burst open
as she grew in size right before her partner, and he fled in shock
from the room.

In the film's climax, the two topless 50 foot cheerleaders
battled it out with 'bitch-slaps' on the football field on Homecoming
day ("The Knock-Down Drag-out of the Century") - better
than the regular half-time show entertainment. Cassie was supported
by her geeky science friends, who provided her with serum to transform
Brittany back to normal size. After Cassie injected Brittany in
the gluteus maximus with a serum-syringe, her rival didn't return
to normal size but was slightly miniaturized. Cassie also accepted
the reverse transformation for herself ("I think I like the
old me better") as the film ended.

The Football Field Catfight Between the Two Giant
Topless Cheerleaders: Cassie vs. Brittany

In addition, there was an earlier masturbatory
shower scene, enjoyed by Tiffany (Anne McDaniels), who was
then attacked by a giant spider in a nearby toilet stall.

French writer Guy de Maupassant's 1885 second novel, Bel
Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel, was the basis for
this erotically-steamy film by theatre director Declan Donnellan and
Nick Ormerod.

In this cynical costume drama, heartthrob Robert
Pattinson starred as the main character, amoral Frenchman Georges
Duroy. He was a 19th century, peasant-born, Parisian soldier-turned-journalist
who was involved with a succession of mistresses and lovers (all
married):

Madeleine Forestier (Uma Thurman), an ambitious
and intelligent journalist and politician; she was the aristocratic
wife of his former army buddy Charles Forestier (Philip Glenister),
the political editor of the newspaper La Vie Française.
She became Duroy's
secret lover - his central paramour

Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci), a promiscuous,
lonely and bored young housewife who sincerely loved Duroy during
her sexual affair with him

The power-hungry, ruthless, misogynistic, charming
Parisian lothario was able to advance up the city's social
ladder (during the Belle Epoque era) by manipulative sexual trysts
with these talented and influential upper-class women. For example,
the talentless Duroy was able to get employed at the newspaper
due to their influence. There were many passionate sex scenes,
several of which involved nudity (breasts and buttocks were visible).
Soon, Duroy was able to find himself a position of influence as
the paper's gossip editor and as Madeleine's husband.

The Asylum has produced quite a few direct-to-video,
'guilty-pleasure' sex comedies (garnering many negative reviews)
within the past few years (with similar copy-cat titles
to larger films, such as American
Pie or other series),
including Barely Legal (2011), MILF (2010), #1 Cheerleader
Camp (2010), Sex Pot (2009), and 18 Year-Old Virgin (2009).

This R-rated, low-budget teen sex comedy
immediately opened with plentiful views of bare breasts beneath
the credits - a boobs montage in the locker-room. As its sole
claim to fame, the raunchy film probably has more breast shots
than almost any other in recent memory. However, there were no
sex scenes (just kisses), instances of sexual contact, or full-frontal
nudity. It
was competing with another more highly-publicized, similarly-titled
film (with much less skin), Spring Breakers (2013) with
Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez.

Opening Credits - A Boobs Montage

Franny (Jamie Noel)

Michelle (Erin O'Brien)

The Mechanical Bull

The Jumbo-Tron

Pole Dancing

Wet T-Shirt Contest

Director/co-writer Jared Cohn included
all the prerequisite features of this kind of film as well - a
wet-T shirt contest, a soapy car wash, green Jello-wrestling, a
stripper montage (topless in thongs), topless mechanical bull-riding,
and a locker-room sequence (broadcast onto the football field's
jumbotron scoreboard). Revenge
of the Nerds'
Robert Carradine starred in the tiresome flick. The film's tagline
advertised: "Sweet, Small-Town Girls, Until..."

The conservative college, with its alcoholic band
director Coach Gil (Robert Carradine), sent its female marching
band 3,000 miles to Miami, Florida to compete in a national competition.
Five main coeds drove in a bus with the band's instruments (the
rest of the band flew ahead!):

upbeat, optimistic, ditzy, sweet, good girl
Alice (Rachel Alig)

super dense, bawdy, red-headed screw-up
Zoe (Virginia Petrucci)

in-charge, bossy, neurotic
Whitney (Samantha Stewart)

spoiled, germaphobe "Princess" Franny (Jamie
Noel)

abrupt and gruff, potty-mouthed Michelle (Erin
O'Brien)

Unfortunately, their misadventures began when they
became stuck in Ft. Lauderdale following a bus accident, and they
frequently doffed their tops to compete in the wildest and wettest
Spring Break party of the year, to win $10,000 to fix their bus.

Director Drew Goddard's witty R-rated horror film
(his feature-directing debut) was derived from a script he
co-wrote with Joss Whedon. The self-aware, mischievous film, with
plenty of in-jokes, had the tagline: "You think
you know the story." It was derivative of, and paid homage
to earlier classic horror films, such as Sam Raimi's first two Evil
Dead films (1982 and 1987), Ringu (1998, Jp.), Eli
Roth's Cabin Fever (2002), Ju-on: The Grudge (2003, Jp.),
the Scream films
(1996-2011), Wes Craven's New
Nightmare (1994), the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and the thematic
set-up of The Truman Show (1998). Although it was actually shot in
2009, it was held up by MGM's bankruptcy, and then by new owners'
Lionsgate that delayed the release for 3-D conversion (although it
was eventually released flat).

The principal characters (obvious archetypes), all
young and sex-crazed college students, ventured in an RV to Curt's
cousin's new place, the Buckner place - a "cabin in the woods"
located on a rural lake (similar to Friday the 13th's locales):

Everything that the group did was monitored by
a group of white-shirted and short-sleeved technicians in a high-tech
control room or command center - two conducting
surveillance on the group were Gary Sitterson (Richard Jenkins)
and Steve Hadley (Bradley Whitford). (There were similar projects
underway in Sweden, Spain, Japan, and other countries around
the world.) They were observing, manipulating, and betting on
the outcome and fate of the choices of the characters - the film's
slasher victims. The cabin was wired with hidden cameras, and
the behaviors of the characters could be guided by pheromone sprays
in the forest or mood-enhancing drugs. A large whiteboard, used
by the scientists for betting which monsters
would be picked, displayed dozens of horror categories,
scenarios, and monsters to be selected for inclusion, i.e., Alien
Beast, Vampires, Yeti, Sugar Plum Fairies, Dismemberment Goblins,
Hell Lord, Zombie Redneck Torture Family, Deadites and Angry Molesting
Trees.

As expected in any film in the teens-in-the-woods
subgenre, the lusting couple (after a healthy dose of sex pheromones)
were led to the woods. Moonlight and temperature were manipulated
to be just perfect, as the slutty Jules removed her blouse for
Curt. They were monitored by the techies, one of whom commented
as she went topless:
"Score!" However, Jules was almost immediately killed and
decapitated by zombies.

In the climactic conclusion, the last two survivors
(Marty, immune to the technicians' drugs, and last remaining virgin
Dana) who were fighting back against their manipulated enslavement,
entered (via elevator) into the underground laboratory labyrinth.
In the lower levels of the tech facility, they were spoken to,
via the PA system, by The Director (Sigourney Weaver), who described
the scenario that they had just acted out. They were five stereotypical
teens doomed to die, to appease the "ancient ones" during
an annual ritual sacrifice, as part of an ancient pact. Teens
were fateful carnage for a blood-lusting Satan-like creature
orchestrating the quasi-governmental organization to placate evil,
to forestall a global apocalypse if the sacrificial
scenario wasn't completed somewhere in the world. This time around,
all of the other groups had failed:

"This is all most unpleasant. I know you
can hear me. I hope you'll listen. You won't get out of this
complex alive. What I want you to try to understand is that
you mustn't. Your deaths will avert countless others. You've
seen horrible things: an army of nightmare creatures. And they
are real. But they are nothing compared to what lies beneath
us. There is a greater good, and for that you must be sacrificed.
Forgive us...and let us end it quickly."

In response, the two survivors unleashed
an attack of many different creatures, including werewolves, spiders,
mummies, zombies, ghosts, giant snakes, an Alien
(1979) creature,
killer robots, a Clive Barker-like Cenobite, and a killer clown.
The technicians in the control room were among the victims, as
was the Director. Marty
and Dana decided not to follow the suggestion to die
for the larger cause. In the film's final scene, they smoked
pot together, and gave in to the sleeping, giant evil gods that
were rumbling underneath them. The Ancient One's gigantic hand
and arm from the lower chamber rose up to destroy them.

The Five Characters The White-board The Control Room Jules
(Anna Hutchinson)

The middle-aged, matronly, ineffectual restaurant
manager Sandra (Ann Dowd) and her engaged, slightly-drunk fiance
Van (Bill Camp) received a call from Officer Daniels (Pat Healy).
He authoritatively claimed to be a policeman and that he had an
incriminating surveillance videotape of an employee stealing $1,400
from a customer's purse. The
caller urged the manager to take the suspected Becky, who resembled
the appearance of the criminal, to the back stock room of the
restaurant for a strip-search (the alternative was to immediately
send her to jail), after the stolen cash was not located in her
purse or clothing. He also added that Becky's
home was being searched as part of a larger investigation for
suspected marijuana possession.

The restaurant employee was forced into complying
- Becky strip-searched herself in front of Sandra
and Marti (Ashlie Atkinson), another female employee. As events
escalated, three different men were stationed in the room to keep
a watchful eye over her, leading to her complete humiliation and
sexual violation:

co-worker Kevin (Philip Ettinger) - he refused
to comply with Officer Daniels' demands that Becky be further
inspected by removing the apron she had put on after the strip
search. He told Sandra that he couldn't be involved.

Sandra's fiance Van - he coerced Becky to perform
a series of sexual acts, including naked jumping jacks (to see
if any objects would "fall
out"), lying on his lap to be repeatedly spanked, and even to
perform oral sex on him.

custodian Harold (Stephen Payne) - he called
a halt to the proceedings, telling the complicit Sandra that
the police officer on the phone was an imposter.

The entire
incident (the prank call and hoax) was discovered to be fraudulent,
perpetrated by a telemarketer and family man. The final moments of the film stated that the
strip search prank-call scam had occurred over seventy times across
thirty U.S. states.

As it turned out in reality, the caller was thought
to be a prison guard in Florida, 37 year-old
David Stewart, a married father of five suspected of 160 such
telephone hoaxes over ten years. In 2004, he was charged with
soliciting a sex act and impersonating a police officer, but was
acquitted of all charges during a 2006 trial. The restaurant manager
Donna Summers received a year's probation, and her fiance pleaded
guilty to sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, and unlawful imprisonment,
and received a 5-year jail sentence. The victim Louise Ogborn
received an undisclosed sum of money from McDonalds, which had
appealed the jury's decision to award her more than $5 million
in compensatory and punitive damages.

Becky
(Dreama Walker)

Devil Seed (2012, Canada)
(aka The Devil in Me, UK)

Director/writer Greg Sager's possession-styled thriller/horror
film was a derivative and predictable
film within its genre, with plot elements ripped off from The
Exorcist (1973), Demon Seed (1977), and The Entity
(1982). Its
tagline was: EVIL GROWS WITHIN...

After the summer holidays,
virginal Alex Froshiber (Michelle Argyris) moved into a rented
house with two roommates:
friend Jessica Martin (Shantelle Canzanese) and bitchy, slutty
blonde Breanne Whitaker (Vanessa Broze) - who was actually sleeping
with Alex's unfaithful boyfriend Brian Wolski
(Kevin Jake Walker) and provided all of the film's gratuitous
nudity.

After a night of drinking and
partying, Alex and Jessica visited a fortune teller who gave Alex
a psychic reading about her future. She was forecast to experience
both death and doom. (This was
explained by an early flashback during an introductory montage
- an exorcism which went wrong some time in Boston in 1972 - 40
years earlier.)

She began to experience blackouts, sleepwalking
and sleep-time moaning. She heard voices, had unexplained injuries
(scratched thighs and defaced cleavage), screamed foul-mouthed
blasphemous obscenities, saw satanic symbols in her school-notebook,
and felt she was going insane. She (or the house itself)
seemed to have become possessed and haunted by a demonic spirit,
confirmed when she went to the library to look up "demonic
possession" on
Google.

She was rape-attacked
(mostly off-screen) by an invisible demonic figure.
She became pregnant with the unclean spirit, and required an exorcism
from a priest, the same one from the prologue, to rid her of the
malevolent demon.

Alex
(Michelle Argyris)Breanne Whitaker
(Vanessa Broze)

Dracula (2012, It.) (aka
Dracula 3D, or Dario Argento's Dracula 3-D)

Italian horror director Dario Argento's unoriginal
version of the vampirish, blood-sucking tale, also available in
stereoscopic 3-D, included a mish-mash of cultish elements for
a Dracula film, including gothic atmosphere, nude vampiresses,
violence and blood. It was riding the wave of many vampire films,
including HBO's True Blood, Let the Right One
In (2008, Swedish), and the Twilight movies.

As the familiar iconic tale was told in a kitschy,
Euro-trash, exploitative manner, vampire Count Dracula (Thomas
Kretschmann) - with long fingernails and fangs (and at one point
transforming himself into a giant praying mantis) - was intrigued
by the entrancing Mina Harker (Marta Gastini), the reincarnation
of his beloved Dolingen De Gratz who had died around 400 years
before.

Sexy Lucy (37 year-old Asia Argento, the director's
daughter), the mayor's daughter, was
promised eternal life if she would lure her old friend Mina to the
Transylvanian village of Passo Borgo, near to Dracula's castle.
Lucy would first pretend to offer Mina's clerk-husband Jonathan
(Unax Ugalde), her newlywed husband, a castle librarian job. After
her arrival to join her husband, Mina gave Lucy a sponge-bath.

Lucy's (Asia Argento) Naked Sponge
Bath Scene

Much of the choppy film's dialogue was leaden and
ludicrous, along with various plot holes and poor, soap-operish
acting. However, the nudity and sleazy sex factor among the females
was excessive, including that of Tania (Miriam Giovanelli). In
the opening scene, the beautifully buxom Tania secretly met her
lover late at night in a barn for love-making - a nude scene.
She was then stalked by Dracula (as an owl) and attacked, making
her one of the undead. She became Dracula's
slutty assistant, a mostly-naked vampire, who often walked around
in a low-cut, body-hugging, transparent white dress, to seduce
Jonathan, so that afterwards Dracula could consume him.

In the film's conclusion, Rutger Hauer appeared
as the vampire hunting Abraham Van Helsing, with wooden crosses
and stakes, holy water, and garlic to combat Dracula and his forces.

Director Benoît Jacquot's gorgeously sexy
French drama, an opulent period piece, fictionalized the story
of French Queen Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger), on the eve of
the 1789 French Revolution (and Bastille Day). The tale was adapted
from Chantal Thomas's 2003 novel. It was one of many similar films
about the doomed queen, including Sofia Coppola's recent Marie
Antoinette (2006) starring Kirsten Dunst.

The Sapphic story was set at the gilded Palace of
Versailles over a period of three days. It was told through the
feminine viewpoint of young and naive lower-class Sidonie Laborde
(Léa
Seydoux), the Queen's self-negating, totally-devoted reader (lectrice).
She was critiqued by one of the aging servants: "You're so young.
And already blind." The resourceful reader traveled up and down
the back corridors of Versailles, listening to murmurings as the
royalty was besieged from without. When the fall of the Bastille
and news of the revolt circulated (with a list of the heads to
be cut off), there were mass defections, broken alliances, and
some suicides. Sidonie asked urgently: "What will happen to us?"
although she vowed to be steadfast to the Queen: "Stay with her
as long as she needs."

The intense and compelling quasi-historical drama
highlighted a love triangle involving the moody, unpredictable,
hedonistic and frivolous Queen, who was married to neglectful
husband King Louis the XVI (Xavier Beauvois). While tended by Sidonie,
the Queen was in a scandalous, passionate lesbian relationship
with:

the very-poised, regal, and semi-icy Duchess
of Polignac, Gabrielle de Polastron (Virginie Ledoyen)

The Queen asked Sidonie: "Have you ever been attracted
by a woman, to the point that you suffer in her absence?", hinting
at her own lesbian longings for the Duchess. In
one of the film's most interesting and erotic segments, Sidonie
thrilled when the Queen applied rosewood water to her mosquito
bites/rash on her arm, but also silently seethed in jealousy over
the Queen's morally-loose, lascivious infatuation with the beautiful
aristocrat Gabrielle.

The film concluded with Sidonie's willing sacrifice
("I cannot refuse her anything") to protect the Queen and her pampered
mistress - potentially an ultimate sacrifice. The ill-fated Marie
Antoinette was determined that her lover, the Duchess, must flee
for her life, while she would stay behind to face her destiny. Before
the Duchess left, the Queen hugged the Duchess
one last time, telling her: "Let me inhale one last time the scent
of your youth."

In the
final scene, Sidonie stripped off her own dress
and stared at the Queen, with a look of longing and sadness - feeling
slightly betrayed. The Queen had ordered her to impersonate
the fleeing Duchess, who would accompany
her dressed as a servant. Sidonie was attired in the Duchess'
green satin gown, reminding the Queen of her lover ("Tell
Gabrielle that I'll never forget her"). As Sidonie departed,
in order to prepare for the costume-switching decoy-escape with
the Duchess, the Queen gratefully kissed Sidonie.

Director Robert Zemeckis' R-rated action-thriller
was his first live-action film since Cast Away (2000),
and the second R-rated film of his career.

In the opening non-sexual scene set at the American
Value Suites hotel near the Orlando, Florida airport, a clock
radio turned on at 7:14 am. Flight attendant Katerina (Trina)
Marquez (Puerto Rican actress Nadine Velazquez) rose totally naked
from bed and walked to the bathroom. [During most of the scene,
the camera was at a stationary angle at the foot of the bed, as
she walked in and out of the frame.] Her African-American partner
Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington), later revealed to be a veteran
pilot for a regional airline, was naked under the bed-sheet. He
answered his cellphone - a call from his divorced 'ex-wife' asking
for financial support. His frustrating conversation was a 'shake
down' for money for his estranged son's tuition, while he was
accused of being a liar:

"What tuition?...How
much does it cost?...No, no, no, that's not true...You're the
one that wanted him to go to private school, not me...Oh, he’s
my son now, because you want him to go to -- you want a f--king
tuition check...Does he want to go to the f--kin' school?"

He had obviously slept
and had sex with Katerina the night before - the room was disheveled
and there were beer bottles strewn around, one of which served him
another swig. As
he talked on the phone, she returned to the room and slowly slipped
on her clothes, beginning with her dark-red, skimpy thong panties.
Katerina briefly climbed atop Whip. He was due to pilot an early-morning
9 am flight to Atlanta with 102 passengers. Before leaving the room,
he was also snorting a line of cocaine as a pick-me-up, adding to
his major addiction problem of alcoholism.

The main focus of the film was the spectacular flying
ability of Whip (even though he was high), as he piloted his
plane through turbulent thunderstorms, followed by a malfunction.
In a gripping sequence, Whip was able to invert the aircraft during
a nose-dive to force it to level out, before crashing the plane
in an open field, and saving everyone except six. However, post-crash
toxicology reports revealed that he was on drugs, even though
it was a miracle that he had avoided a potentially more devastating
tragedy.

Katerina
(Nadine Velazquez)

Hijacked (2012)

Director Brandon Nutt's low-budget, B-movie action-thriller,
a straight-to-DVD effort, resembled Die Hard (1988), Executive
Decision (1996) and Air Force
One (1997) with its testosterone-driven plot about the unraveling of an international
conspiracy onboard a hijacked plane from Paris to the US - with
a "twist" ending.

It opened with a lavish Parisian party hosted
by wealthy, brash British CEO industrialist Bruce Lieb (Craig
Fairbass), who was suspected of shady business practices by the
SEC. US government agent Paul Ross (former UFC heavyweight champion
Randy Couture) was investigating a global terrorist crime syndicate
known as The Tribe, and discovered that their next target was
billionaire Lieb.

Ross was hired by Lieb to serve as a bodyguard aboard
his private plane, a huge luxury jumbo jet. There, he encountered
his own leggy estranged ex-fiance Olivia (Tiffany Dupont) and
Lieb's burly Aussie bodyguard Otto Southwell (Dominic Purcell).
The villains were led by Rostow Pawlak (Holt McCallany), who planned
to rob Lieb Industries, hijack the plane in mid-air during a
trans-Atlantic flight, and parachute off the plane with the cash
deposited in a Swiss bank account.

The film was rated R in part for a explicit sex
scene between two of the plane's passengers, including Taylor
Jeffries (Marla Malcolm) who showed everything topless - but the
scene ended with both shot dead.

Taylor Jeffries
(Marla Malcolm)

Lawless (2012)

The R-rated, brutal and violent gangster-crime film
from Australian director John Hillcoat was set in 1931 in Prohibition-era
Franklin County, Virginia, and was adapted by writer Nick Cave
from the 2008 book The
Wettest County in the World, written by Bondurant grand-son
Matt Bondurant. The film's tagline boasted: "When the Law Became
Corrupt, Outlaws Became Heroes."

Various brothers in the Bondurant family were real-life
"lawless" bootleggers running a moonshine racket-business, and searching
for the American dream:

Jack (Shia LaBeouf), the youngest one, idolizing
and ambitious (wanted to be a bigger player in the family),
fearful and naive

The story told about the Bondurants
who were doing business with big-city, legendary villainous Chicago
mobster Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman). They ran into conflict with
a corrupt police force led by intimidating, psychopathic Chicago-based
federal agent Special Deputy Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce). The glove-wearing,
bow-tied, foppish and preening Rakes wanted a share of the lucrative
business and was willing to lawlessly intimidate competitors with
extreme violence (killings, beatings, throat slashing, a revenge
castration), torture (tar and feathering) and rape.

To round out the violence were two 'girlfriend'
characters:

Maggie Beauford (Jessica Chastain), city dweller
and ex-saloon dancer from Chicago who had moved to the country,
serving as a waitress at the Bondurant gas station/store/diner
(the front for the operation), and becoming the love interest
of Forrest

Bertha Minnix (Mia
Wasikowska), the rebellious, chaste daughter of a disapproving Dunkard Brethren preacher (Alex Van)
as she was courted by Jack

Three mentions were for 2012 films, including
Kristen Stewart for On the Road (2012) - see below, and
two Best Actress Oscar nominees:
Helen Hunt in The
Sessions (2012) -
see below, and Jessica Chastain (nominated for Zero Dark Thirty
(2012)) for this film - she was noted for her nudity in her
first on-screen naked appearance in a love-making scene with Forrest.

Maggie Beauford
(Jessica Chastain)

Lay the Favorite (2012,
UK)

British director Stephen Frears' off-beat comedy-drama
was based on Beth Raymer's memoirs about her life as a stripper,
boxer, and journalist. Rebecca Hall starred as high-pitch
voiced, thirty-something naive "private dancer" (lap-dancing
stripper) Beth, who left her hometown and moved to Las Vegas
with aspirations of becoming a cocktail waitress. There, because
of her semi-idiot-savant skill with numbers, she was employed
by charismatic professional gambler/bookmaker Dink Heimowitz
(Bruce Willis), aka The Sure Thing.

In this mind-bending, intelligent sci-fi action
thriller by talented writer-director Rian Johnson, 25 year-old
Joe Simmons (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) lived in the year 2044 in the
burned-out, socially-decayed, dystopic metropolis of Kansas City.
He was a low-level, yet specialized hitman (or "looper") with
fated fellow looper Seth Richards (Paul Dano), working for crime
boss Abe (Jeff Daniels) in a Kansas syndicate. Abe had been sent
back from the future by the mob to manage or run the loopers.
The contract killer was hired to assassinate each of the
mob's victims at a pre-arranged drop-off point, a remote corn/wheat
field.

Although time travel
was to be invented in 30 years, it was outlawed. It was appropriated
and used by criminal gangsters, such as controlling mastermind
mob boss Rainmaker from 30 years in the future (2074), to execute
their enemies and leave no trace. The goal was the closing of
every single loop. Targeted enemies to be eliminated were sent
back to the present year of 2044, to be disposed of by their younger
selves. This would be a foolproof and clean method to eliminate
the loopers (or close the loop) - and leave no trace.

Because of his fancy and lucrative lifestyle and
career, young hedonistic Joe was able to afford fine retro clothes,
a classic red Miata, and a fancy hooker/showgirl Suzie (Piper
Perabo). She worked as a can-can dancer at Abe's nightclub "La
Belle Aurore." After a naked encounter together, she
told him that their relationship didn't go further than "services
rendered."

The main plot was that Joe found himself in a twisting
situation where his next target was himself - 30 years older Old
Joe (Bruce Willis). Old Joe had been living a good life in the
future - in Shanghai, China with a wife (Xu Qing). He had traveled
back in time - to find and kill the monstrous Rainmaker as a kid,
to save his own loving wife in the future. [Her death had been
ordered by a man known only as "The Rainmaker."]

The
younger Joe was in hiding from his own mob boss at the remote
Kansas farmhouse of devoted single-mother
Sara Rollins (Emily Blunt) with her son Cid (Pierce
Gagnon). He suspected that Cid might be one
of the children Old Joe thought was the Rainmaker, so he
was there to protect Sara and her child.

The mind-bending conclusion
revealed that Cid was the Rainmaker. Joe realized that if Old Joe
killed Sara, Cid's destiny would be disastrous, filled with anger
and hatred. He would grow up to become the evil, vengeful Rainmaker,
creating a closed time loop of murder and revenge:

"Then I saw it. I saw a Mom who would die for
her son; a man who would kill for his wife; a boy, angry and
alone, laid out in front of him the bad path. I saw it. And
the path was a circle, round and round.
So I changed it."

To
remedy and avert the situation, younger Joe shot himself to death
in the heart to erase Old Joe's life, just as he was about to
shoot Cid's mother. Old Joe immediately disappeared in front of
Sara.

Director Steven Soderbergh's R-rated comedy-drama
was set in the world of male strippers - taglined: "Work all
day. Work it all night." Its authenticity as an ensemble drama
was enhanced by the fact that actor Channing Tatum was a male exotic
dancer (named Chan Crawford) in the late 1990s in Tampa before coming
to Hollywood. The amount of male nudity was considerable (skimpy
G-string thong shots, buttocks views) with lots of pelvic thrusts
and phallic-shaped props, but there were no full-frontal shots
(male or female). In one sequence, one of the exotic male dancers
in the club was prepping for his performance with a hand-operated
suction device or pump, used to enlarge his penis for better viewing
onstage.

In this cautionary moralistic tale, there were
some scenes of drug and alcohol abuse, kinky sex, and of course,
profanity. Many of the male dancers frequently shaved off their
body hair. In contrast, one of the scenes of topless female nudity
was provided by Olivia Munn (her first nude scene) as bisexual
psych grad student Joanna - Mike's non-committal on/off lover.

Female Nudity in a Male Stripper Movie

Joanna (Olivia Munn)

Ken's Wife (Mircea Monroe)

Nora (Riley Keough)

The story was about the 30 year-old title character,
Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) - a Tampa-area roofer, car detailer,
and furniture maker by day and stripper by night - the star performer
Magic Mike at the Club Xquisite Male Revue among a group of other
males. His undeveloped entrepreneurial intention in
the film was to start his own small furniture design business.

He introduced impressionable college dropout (who
lost a football scholarship) and co-construction worker, 19-year-old
Adam "The
Kid" (Alex
Pettyfer), to the nightclub. There the sleazy owner, leather-clad
MC Dallas (Matthew McConaughey) offered him a job after he was
pushed on stage and convinced to remove his clothes. [The character
of Adam was based on Channing Tatum's past.] Dallas described
the lure of the profession to Adam:

"You're not just strippin'. You are fulfillin'
every woman's wildest fantasies. You are the husband that they
never had! You are that dreamboat guy that never came along!
You are the one-night stand, that free-fling of a f--k that
they get to have tonight, with you onstage, and still go home
to their hubby and not get in trouble because you baby, you
made it legal. You are their liberation."

Dallas also kept the other star males in the crew
from leaving by promising them equity in a new larger club in
the Miami area. The other bare-assed male performers for the all-female
clientele, calling themselves the Kings of Tampa, included:

Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello)

Tito (Adam Rodriguez)

Ken (Matt
Bomer)

Tarzan (Kevin Nash)

Adam's older, straight-laced, caring, responsible
yet judgmental blonde sister Brooke (Cody Horn), a medical records
keeper, was skeptical and disapproving of his newfound lucrative
career, and feared for Adam when he was tempted into debauchery
and abusing drugs. She engaged in a romantic yet strained and
tested relationship with Mike.

Brazilian director Walter
Salles' slow-moving, self-indulgent 'road film'
(he previously directed the biopic The Motorcycle Diaries (2004,
Sp.))
was the first film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's semi-autobiographical
cult novel (published in 1957 although written in 1951). Another
film attempting to create the same ambiance was Monte Hellman's
existential classic Two Lane Blacktop (1971).

With
languid generation-defining prose, the over-long film (at almost
140 minutes) told about late 1940s and early 1950s travels 'on
the road.' Its
taglines were: "The best teacher is experience," and
"Desirous of everything at the same time." The
Beat generation, with its adventurous spirit, anti-materialism,
cheap thrills, jazz listening, poetry writing, experimental use
of hard drugs, generational existential angst and frequent free
sex, was highlighted in this randomly-episodic film.

The
main character was free-spirited, charismatic, bi-sexual Dean
Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), incarnating and
modeled after Neal Cassady, the hedonistic, narcissistic rebellious,
quasi-mythical Beat icon. Dean joined three others in NY:

Then, Dean, Marylou, and Sal traveled from
coast to coast across the US (the aimless road
journey covered New York, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans
and Mexico), attracting various colorful followers,
such as:

In one of the film's more bizarre scenes set in
a moving car, bare-breasted Marylou masturbated - a double-hand-job
- both naked Sal and Dean (on either side of her in the front
seat of a car). It was one of three scenes when Kristen Stewart
was topless; in another, she was engaged in a three-way sex scene
with Dean and Sal.

42 year-old writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's
sixth film was this well-crafted, visually-compelling, intelligent,
R-rated psychological drama. It was highly acclaimed, with three
Academy Award Oscar nominations for its performers: Best Actor
(Joaquin Phoenix), Best Supporting Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman),
and Best Supporting Actress (Amy Adams). However, it spawned considerable
controversy for its similarities to the leader of the Church of
Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, author of the book Dianetics:
The Modern Science of Mental Health.

Overall, its main unsettling theme
was the search for life's answers and self-fulfillment by a disciple
following a guru/master - often an extremely elusive, pseudo-religious
and difficult relationship. By using an informal technique called
"processing" proposed by the "Master," a series
of lengthy, free-association sessions would help to relive past
traumatic events and eliminate toxicity, negative emotional impulses,
and inner turmoil. The same questions would be repeatedly asked
(i.e., "Do your past
failures bother you?") until they were emotionally nullified
and disempowered. Every one's spirit had carried through for many
trillions of years, in past lives and in different bodies (or
"vessels"). Detailed memories were to be recalled (or
imagined) and deliberated upon again and again, in order to have
them lose their power, to heal oneself and to bring oneself back
to an "inherent
state of perfect." However, Val Dodd (Jesse Plemons), Lancaster's
son, didn't believe in his father's teachings: "He's making
all this up as he goes along."

The film's story concentrated on three main fictional
characters in the early 1950s. The main focus in the film
was on the rogue drifter Freddie and his difficulties adjusting
to civilian life, not on "The
Master" title character - Lancaster
Dodd. It emphasized the bond that developed between them, including
wayward and unpredictable Freddie's wild swings from loyal fanatical
devotion (including beating up those who argued against the
Cause) to doubt and betrayal:

Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), a WWII US Navy
veteran (with post-traumatic stress disorder), an unstable,
animalistic, primitive misfit and loner; an alcoholic - sex-obsessed,
violent, explosively volatile, and erratic; he was diagnosed
with enuresis (bed-wetting); he walked with stiff body movements,
hunched shoulders, and a compressed neck; his father was dead
and his psychotic mother was institutionalized; he claimed he
had incestuous intercourse three times with his Aunt Bertha,
and that he abandoned the love of his life, a 16 year-old sophomore
named Doris Solstad (Madisen Beaty) from his hometown of Lynn,
Massachusetts, who seven years later was married with two children

Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a mystic
charlatan, the self-proclaimed, opportunistic, charismatic cult
leader of "The Cause," an author and book publisher;
at first, he mentored and bonded with Freddie due to his supply
of a secret
"remarkable potion" - actually a solvent-based, home-made
moonshine concocted with lethal paint thinner, and became dedicated
to curing Freddie

Peggy Dodd (Amy Adams), Lancaster's quiet, stoic
and dutiful wife and manager; pregnant, and fiercely protective
of her husband and his work, while very wary of Freddie (and
eventually telling him to leave the "Cause")

Lancaster Dodd
(Philip Seymour Hoffman)

Freddie Quell
(Joaquin Phoenix)

Peggy Dodd
(Amy Adams)

There were quite a few instances of overt sex in
the film:

In the film's opening line of spoken dialogue,
Freddie suggested: "You know how to get rid of the crabs?..You
gotta shave one testicle. All the crabs go over to the other
testicle. You got to light the hair on fire on that one. When
they all go scurrying out, you take an icepick and you f--king
stab every single last one of them."

Freddie came up to a large
sand sculpture of a busty nude woman made by his military buddies,
with detailed genitals and nipples; he pretended to have sexual
intercourse with it (by dry-humping), then fingered it; he jerked
off (viewed from behind) into the ocean, and finally returned
to lay by the sand woman's side

during a Rorschach test (of flash cards) administered
by the military doctor (Mike Howard), sex-obsessed Freddie gave
very graphic responses and saw genitalia in all the images ("Well,
that's a pussy. A lady's pussy," "Looks like a cock going inside
of a pussy")

in the dark-room of the department store where
he worked, sex-fixated
Freddie fondled flirtatious store model/salesgirl Martha (Amy
Ferguson) who began removing her clothes; when she asked as
she unbuttoned her bra: "What else do you wanna see, these?...Are
they nice?...Handmade," Freddie poked at her nipples

the scene of Freddie's twisted, zany, hallucinated
sexual dream-fantasy - of Dodd singing and dancing
among many naked (full-frontal) female disciples at the Philadelphia
home of one of the Master's devotees

Sexual Dream/Fantasy

in front of a bathroom mirror (seen from behind),
Peggy administered a hand-job for her husband (entreating: "Can
you come for me?...Come for me"); she stipulated: "You
can do whatever you want, as long as I don't find out"; she
also prohibited any more of Freddie's drink: "No more of that
boy's hooch"

Peggy read a passage from an erotic Victorian
novel to Freddie, with a graphic description of the sexual act
("'It's really a damn shame to tease you so, my little
whore,' he laughed. 'So, I will get the dildo out of my cabinet
in the next room.' He was scarcely gone many seconds before
he returned, and I
felt his fingers opening the lips of my cunt. 'Oh, oh, who is
that?' I screamed from under my skirt."..."Kiss her. Put your
tongue in her mouth, my boy. F--k, f--k, f--k away")

during sex with Winn Manchester (Jennifer Neala
Page) whom he had just met in an English pub, Freddie - after
asking her "processing" questions, told her part
of a line he had earlier heard from Dodd: "You're
the bravest girl I've ever known. (pause for laughter) Now stick
it back in, it fell out" (the film's last line of dialogue)

Director Lee Daniels' tawdry, somewhat perverted
and lurid tale was widely praised for Nicole Kidman's portrayal
of a feral, trashy Southern female. The campy and compelling
film's basic tale was about two reporters investigating
a convicted death-row inmate awaiting execution in Lately, Florida
(Moat County). The screenplay (by co-writers Daniels and Dexter)
was based upon Peter Dexter's 1995 novel. The atmospheric, startling
and profane drama was an official selection for the Cannes Film
Festival in 2012, and received a long yet questionable standing
ovation.

The
infamous and notorious film was mostly known for the scene in
which Nicole Kidman squatted and peed on Zac Efron on a beach
after he was stung by a jellyfish (a first-aid folk remedy).

Omniscient voice-over narration
via flashback of the events and proceedings from many years earlier
was provided by Anita Chester (Macy Gray), the mother-substitute
and domestic housekeeper of the main Jansen family after the mother "ran
off." She
was mostly relating and interpreting the experiences of aimless
blue-eyed 20 year-old son Jack Jansen (Zac Efron). He was a one-time
swimming champion - but now the paperboy in town after being kicked
out of the Univ. of Florida for vandalism (emptying the pool
water). After entering Jack's room without knocking, Anita was
accused of potentially catching him masturbating. She comically
imitated Jack by mock-masturbating through her padded pantyhose
with her legs propped up on the bed ("I could have
been jerking off").

Enterprising, idealistic Miami Times journalist
Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) (with his black assistant
writer Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo) from London) returned to
his small Florida hometown. Ward
joined up with his younger handsome, and impressionable brother
Jack, the paperboy title character who delivered the paper (and
was mostly seen in tight white underwear). The two were there
to investigate a salacious murder case, in the sweaty summer of
1969, to try to secure the release of imprisoned Hillary van Wetter
(John Cusack). Both Jansen brothers disliked new
girlfriend/fiancee Ellen Guthrie (Nealla Gordon) of their estranged
girl-chasing father W.W. Jansen (Scott Glenn), the publisher of
the local Moat
County Tribune. [Note: Later, just before W.W. married Ellen,
Anita was fired.]

The
death-row inmate van Wetter was charged with knifing to death unscrupulous,
unpopular local redneck Sheriff Thurmond Call (Danny Hanemann).
Ward and Yardley had been in contact with and aided by
carnal Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), an aging (40 years-old)
and frisky Southern belle. Sex-hungry and trashy, she wore false
black eyelashes, a Barbie-doll bottle blonde hairdo and wig, cleavage-revealing
clothing and micro-miniskirts in bright yellows and oranges. Charlotte
was a corresponding pen-pal with many "dangerous" cons,
and had become erotically fixated on van Wetter. She steadfastly
believed he was innocent and wrongly-convicted even though she hadn't
met him. Anita explained
how Jack, whose mother abandoned him when he was five years old,
fell in love with the town's hot-and-bothered nympho Charlotte. "That
horny little boy wanted to jump her on first sight."

Already horny, Charlotte sent "good vibrations"
to the jailed inmate while parked in Jack's car (Jack was the
hired driver) in the lot outside the prison. When the group gathered
for their first interview with the creepy, sweaty, puffy-faced
and deranged van Wetter, Charlotte became even more convinced
that they had to be together and marry. During the questioning
in a visiting room, lust-driven psychopathic van Wetter only spoke
to Charlotte, and asked: "Spread your legs open a little
bit. Mmm. Yeah. Now tear off them pantyhose. Rip those off...Move
your hands away. Now open up your mouth. You picture what you
wrote me in your letters." She ripped through her pantyhose,
then touched herself through her clothed pink panties (seen in
a close-up upskirt shot) and mimed oral sex. She moaned and gasped,
open-mouthed, as she touched herself. They
both were masturbating separately - and orgasming (he ejaculated
in his pants - a wet spot was visible on his leg) - without even
touching each other and sitting 10 feet apart, as
everyone else watched silently or looked away. The visit was prematurely
stopped by a suspicious prison guard. Anita
recalled: "Jack came home and threw up after that. He couldn't
believe he still loved her after what he saw, but he did."

Anita continued to tease Jack and observe how he
was obsessed with sexpot Charlotte: "You'da thought Jack
woulda had a girlfriend by now, but all he did was jerk off to
the pictures in those nudie magazines that was under his bed.
Now she was all he could think of night and day. Oh yeah, he
was definitely in love. He needed her." At the beach while
Jack read Lolita, Charlotte sensed Jack's obsession: "You
want me to blow you, don't ya? You don't have to answer. I know
it's true. I'm not gonna blow a friendship over a stupid little
blow-job." When
he went swimming and was stung repeatedly on the arms and face,
three girls in two-pieces who saw Jack's allergic reaction and
red sores suggested a home remedy: "You're
supposed to piss on a jellyfish sting." Charlotte was angered:
"If anyone's gonna piss on him, it's gonna be me. He don't
like strangers peeing on him" - and then squatted over him
and let loose a stream of yellow urine.

There were a number of revelations and striking
scenes as the investigation proceeded:

Hillary was from an inbred family that made its
primary living by gutting alligators for their skins

van Wetter's swamp-dwelling Uncle Tyree (Ned
Bellamy) claimed, as an alibi, that
his nephew was doing "lawn work" (stealing sod off
a club's golf course) in Ormond Beach when the
murder occurred

Yardley slept with Charlotte (off-screen) and
afterwards was manipulatively compelled to invent evidence (to
corroborate Tyree's story) that would exonerate Hillary (Charlotte
admitted to Jack: "F--king a man is the most natural thing
in the world"); later, Ward discovered that there
was no truth to the alibi that Hillary was stealing sod the
night of the murder

Ward, a closet homosexual, was assaulted (hog-tied)
in his motel room by two black men, and S&M gang-raped
while naked on a plastic tarp - requiring hospitalization

Anita (in voice-over) related how Charlotte and
Jack made love only once: "With
Charlotte, it was like he was getting it with his mama, his
high school sweetheart, and an oversexed Barbie doll all rolled
into one. Anyhow, I think you all seen enough."

the despicable Yardley wasn't English after all
and had lied about his background; Yardley admitted that he
had given Ward sexual favors in exchange for his position ("I
got drunk once and let Ward suck my dick. He got a taste for
ni--ers and now he hates himself")

after the article of their investigation was
published, van
Wetter was released from prison by the governor's pardon; he immediately
sought out Charlotte, and they had violent sex together atop her
washing machine; the sex scene was interspersed
with imagery of an alligator, a scavenging pig and a dead possum
(she asked: "You always f--k like this?")

he and Charlotte
began living together in the alligator-infested swamp; Charlotte
wrote a letter to Jack describing how she was unhappy with her
new lifestyle; during an attempted rescue attempt by Jack and
Ward (on the day of their father's wedding), Charlotte was found
dead and Ward's throat was slit with a machete by van
Wetter

van Wetter was tried and convicted for the two
murders; he died in the electric chair at the Florida State
Prison; nobody ever found out who murdered Sheriff Call

Anita spoke the last line about Jack and his
naive, unending love for Charlotte: "He never did get over
his first true love"

Jack Jansen
(Zac Efron)Anita Chester's (Macy Gray)
Mock-MasturbationCharlotte (Nicole Kidman)
with JackCharlotte in the Prison
Interview ScenesAt the Beach:
The Infamous Pee SceneCharlotte In a Dream
and Making Love to JackCharlotte with HillaryWard's Killing

The Sessions (2012)

The Sundance Film Festival premiered Australian-American
writer/director Ben Lewin's audacious R-rated art-house film -
the true story of Berkeley-based poet, autobiographer and
journalist Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes). He had hired a hands-on "sex
surrogate" named Cheryl Cohen Greene (Helen
Hunt), a married mother with a Massachusetts accent, to help him
lose his virginity and discover sex at the age of 38. The story
was inspired by an article O'Brien had written in 1990 titled "On
Seeing a Sex Surrogate."

The movie
strangely brought together the themes of two other diverse films: The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) and The King's Speech (2010).
And Hunt had starred (and appeared nude) in a similar movie 20
years earlier titled The Waterdance
(1992).

The Motion Picture Assn. of America rated the dramatic
film R for "strong sexuality including graphic nudity and
frank dialogue." However, all of the nudity came from 49
year-old star Helen Hunt, who was required to often be naked in
the film during the six fairly explicit and graphic sex "sessions."
She had approximately nine breast-baring scenes, and four full-frontal
glimpses. Hawkes' character Mark, however, was never nude, presumably
because an erect penis or male frontal nudity would have delivered
the film an unacceptable NC-17 rating, making the film commercially
unviable.

Mark
was a devout Catholic, and had never had sex - one of his greatest
frustrations beyond his disability. He believed
that sex out of wedlock was a mortal sin and was therefore conflicted
about the issue. His main
physical problem was that because of childhood polio at the age
of 6 that had given him a curved spine, he was paralyzed from
the neck down. He was able to achieve involuntary erections during
sponge baths. [Until he died at the age of 54 in 1999, Mark was
required to spend 20 hours a day in an iron lung. During the other
few hours, he was put on a portable respirator.] One of his caregivers,
pretty student Amanda (Annika Marks), caused Mark to develop an
innocent crush on her, but she was scared away and rejected his
advances when he proposed marriage. He began to consider how to
proceed with his sexual longings and have sex for the first time
("to know
a woman in the Biblical sense").

After learning about the idea
of a professional sex surrogate when he was researching the sex
lives of disabled individuals, he sought and discussed receiving
the church's approval to have sex therapy with his spiritual counselor
and long-haired priest, Father Brendan (William H. Macy). Brendan
agreed with the idea (assuring him that God would give him a "free
pass on this one. Go for it!"), and Mark was able to hire
Cheryl. Mark and the priest continued to speak to each other,
in interwoven segments, as he confessed his increasingly erotic
feelings after each meeting. For each therapy session, assistant
Vera (Moon Bloodgood) wheeled Mark to her at a motel.

The Therapeutic Sessions with Cheryl (Helen Hunt)

Verbally frank with her extremely nervous and terrified
client, Cheryl proceeded step-by-step and matter-of-factly. She
explained during their first awkward encounter that she wasn't
a prostitute. Only six therapy "sessions" were allowed
in order to avoid having him develop an emotional attachment to
her, although she added: "The limit is six. That gives us
plenty of opportunity to explore." [In an interview, Hunt
explained the difference between a prostitute and a sex therapist: "A
prostitute wants your return business, and a sex surrogate does
not."]

She stripped naked, then started body awareness
sessions, and there were Mark's inevitable bouts of premature ejaculation.
She reassured Mark that they would eventually have sexual intercourse,
although his body was horribly twisted. The film, however, never
showed explicit intercourse.